<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head><title>R: Bollen's Data on Industrialization and Political Democracy</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="R.css">
</head><body>

<table width="100%" summary="page for Bollen"><tr><td>Bollen</td><td align="right">R Documentation</td></tr></table>

<h2>
Bollen's Data on Industrialization and Political Democracy
</h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>This data set includes four measures of democracy at two points in
time, 1960 and 1965, and three measures of industrialization in 1960,
for 75 developing countries.
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>Bollen</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>


<p>A data frame with 75 observations on the following 11 variables.
</p>

<dl>
<dt><code>y1</code></dt><dd><p>freedom of the press, 1960</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>y2</code></dt><dd><p>freedom of political opposition, 1960</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>y3</code></dt><dd><p>fairness of elections, 1960</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>y4</code></dt><dd><p>effectivness of elected legislature, 1960</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>y5</code></dt><dd><p>freedom of the press, 1965</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>y6</code></dt><dd><p>freedom of political opposition, 1965</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>y7</code></dt><dd><p>fairness of elections, 1965</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>y8</code></dt><dd><p>effectivness of elected legislature, 1965</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>x1</code></dt><dd><p>GNP per capita, 1960</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>x2</code></dt><dd><p>energy consumption per capita, 1960</p>
</dd>
<dt><code>x3</code></dt><dd><p>percentage of labor force in industry, 1960</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Details</h3>


<p>Variables <code>y1</code> through <code>y4</code> are intended to be indicators of the latent variable <EM>political democracy in 1960</EM>;
<code>y5</code> through <code>y8</code> indicators of <EM>political democracy in 1965</EM>; and
<code>x1</code> through <code>x3</code> indicators of <EM>industrialization in 1960</EM>.
</p>


<h3>Source</h3>


<p>personal communication from Ken Bollen.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>Bollen, K. A. (1989) <EM>Structural Equations With Latent Variables</EM>. Wiley. 
</p>


</body></html>
